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Bug 161368 (rbrown) - Retire: Richard Brown (rbrown)
Summary: Retire: Richard Brown (rbrown)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: rbrown
Product: Gentoo Developers/Staff
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Retirement (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Retirement Admin
URL:
Whiteboard: planet-retire: 2008-04-28
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-01-10 18:27 UTC by Stephen Bennett (RETIRED)
Modified: 2021-02-03 08:07 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


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Excerpts (rbrown.txt,9.52 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-28 02:32 UTC, Christina Gianelloni (RETIRED)
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Description Stephen Bennett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-01-10 18:27:18 UTC
I'd like to bring Richard on board to help out with the nascent QA project Brutalis, as well as general QA project work. He'd also like to help maintain a few packages, as well as joining the Ruby herd (pending approval from them). Eroyf will help with mentoring to help him get a feel for the process.

Email: mynamewasgone@gmail.com
IRC nick: rbrown`
Comment 1 Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-01-10 18:34:11 UTC
Bug taken.
Comment 2 Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-02-20 23:13:50 UTC
Ok, quiz had been sent. I reviewed it, had 3 slight issues.
New answers have been resent, i reviewed and accepted it.

LDAP done, core done, bugs.g.o account done, forums done, gentooAccess done,
#gentoo-dev done.

From my side everything is done.
Comment 3 Christian Heim (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-03-03 13:54:02 UTC
Should be all setup. Feel free to reopen this bug if something is missing.
Comment 4 Christina Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 01:34:27 UTC
Please proceed with retirement procedures, reference bug 216219, however use this bug for processing.
Comment 5 Mauricio L. Pilla (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 02:00:58 UTC
Fixed in the forums.
Comment 6 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 02:10:01 UTC
- Removed gentoo/developer cloak on freenode
- Removed #gentoo-dev access
- Reassigned all remaining bugs
Comment 7 Mike Doty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 02:13:25 UTC
dev/cvs/lists/ldap done
Comment 8 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 02:21:26 UTC
- Removed from proj/ pages.
Comment 9 Ferris McCormick (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 02:28:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Please proceed with retirement procedures, reference bug 216219, however use
> this bug for processing.
> 

Please open bug 216219 --- it's useless to reference it otherwise.
Comment 10 Christina Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 02:32:13 UTC
Created attachment 151218 [details]
Excerpts
Comment 11 Ferris McCormick (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 05:10:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Please proceed with retirement procedures, reference bug 216219, however use
> > this bug for processing.
> > 
> 
> Please open bug 216219 --- it's useless to reference it otherwise.
> 
Again, no excerpts please.  As (I believe) Mark noted, we are supposed to be open, and if we are retiring people based on a hidden bug, that is not open.  There's nothing in the excerpts that would seem to me to justify firing someone without any normal process.  The log excerpts do not have dates on them so I don't know when they happened, but for them to fall under "critical so that devrel lead can fire them bypassing any normal process" I'd hope they were very recent.  Things that happened long ago are not critical pretty much by definition.

So Council,  please open your locked bug.
Comment 12 David Leverton 2008-04-28 11:28:34 UTC
> He added an -r0 of an ebuild, making it the only -r0 in the entire tree. 
> This seems coincidentally shortly after ferringb said rbrown discovered 
> a pkgcore bug that broke in this case. That would imply rbrown purposely 
> broke another non-paludis package manager.

Just want to comment on this specifically:
1) I'm pretty sure rbrown has already explained more than once that this was an accident
2) As far as I know, the pkgcore bug was discovered /because/ of this ebuild; no-one knew about it before it was added
3) Paludis, and I think Portage, also had bugs that were uncovered by this

So, accusing him of deliberately breaking pkgcore and using it as a reason to retire him seems rather... disingenuous, to say the least.
Comment 13 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 16:13:43 UTC
- removed from metadata.xml files
- removed from all herds
Comment 14 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 16:44:17 UTC
- Planet done and retirement procedure completed.